Pier 80

Pier 80 is where San Francisco's cargo ended up. The Port's 1980 handbook already shows it as a working terminal serving Far East, South East Asia and Middle East lines; by the late 1990s the Port Commission was recording that the former cargo activities at Piers 27-29 had been consolidated here, and a 1986 engineering study of container terminal options argued for going further — expanding Pier 80 north toward Pier 70 into a single consolidated terminal with immediate rail access and miles of contiguous maritime land. The Mission Bay agreement fed it too: the Port gave up fifteen acres to Catellus and took back the 26-acre Western Pacific Yard and twelve acres of city streets adjacent to the Pier 80 terminal. Keeping it working is expensive and only partly funded — the Port's 10-year capital plan proposes revenue bond proceeds for Pier 80 cargo facility upgrades while listing Pier 80, 90 and 96 improvements among hundreds of millions in unfunded projects. Three contracts name the pier directly: Pasha Automotive Services operates auto services there, paid $5.36M against $9.65M agreed; Manson Construction was paid $1.65M of $3.71M for mooring and berthing improvements; and a roof replacement is agreed at $665,284 with nothing yet paid.